Main Event Day 1b | 2011 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

03-21-2011 23:19 UTC+2

Player	Chips	Progress
Thorsten Schafer	74,000	-3,000
John Eames	59,000	3,600
Markus Golser	50,000	-1,000
Luca Cainelli	48,000	27,000
Max Lykov	45,000	24,000
Florian Langmann	25,000	8,850
Fernando Brito	23,700	-3,675
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	20,000	-10,400
Ivo Donev	8,000	-24,000

We found Ville Wahlbeck betting 4,000 from the cutoff on the river of an {8-Hearts} {q-Hearts} {8-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} {8-Spades} board. In the big blind, online qualifier Nikolaus Deininger eyed him up. "You hit the queen?" he mused. "Sevens? Nothing?" He now check-raised to 11,000.

Wahlbeck grinned, and proceeded to tank up for a minute or two, the smile never dropping from his face. "Dunno if I can beat an eight," he said, "You played it well." He called anyway, and Deininger duly turned over {8-Diamonds} {2-Hearts} for quads. He is up to 60,000, while the Finnish Team Pro is down to 12,000.

Tags: Ville Wahlbeck Nikolaus Deininger

03-21-2011 23:09 UTC+2

Lowering His Stani-dard

[user76023]

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Kevin Stani opened preflop to 1,000 and got one caller in Carlo Misuraca. Stani led out for 1,025 on a {3-Clubs} {j-Hearts} {4-Spades} and Misuraca quickly called to see the {7-Spades} turn where both players cautiously checked.

The river was the {5-Hearts} and Stani now carefully bet out 2,250 but Misuraca showed no signs of folding, calling and quickly turning over {9-Hearts} {9-Spades} as the Norwegian pro mucked his hand.

Tags: Kevin Stani

03-21-2011 23:01 UTC+2

Assorted Counts

[user76023]

Player	Chips	Progress
Morten Mortensen	135,000	15,000
Vladimir Geshkenbein	75,000	-10,000
Markus Golser	51,000	-1,000
Mattias de Meulder	34,000	19,800
Pierre Neuville	33,000	-7,000
Martin Jacobson	32,000	-10,000
Anton Wigg	29,000	-6,000
Salvatore Bonavena	27,000	-700
Joao Nunes	22,000	-5,000
Max Lykov	21,000	-4,625
George Danzer	19,000	-12,000
Laurence Houghton	12,500	-17,500
Nuno Coelho	8,800	-33,200

03-21-2011 22:59 UTC+2

Chip Counts From The Middle of The Room

Matthew Pitt

Player	Chips	Progress
John Eames	55,400	1,800
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier	30,400	5,400
Fernando Brito	27,375	-6,325
Ville Wahlbeck	25,900	4,800
Martin Finger	19,200
Sofia Lovgren	18,800	-900
Florian Langmann	16,150	-33,850

03-21-2011 22:44 UTC+2

And Back We Go

[user46392]

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

All the players are now back in the tournament area, full of lovely buffet, and are getting back down to business. There's 45 minutes left on the clock for Level 6, and we understand that they'll be playing right through to the end of Level 8 before calling it a night.

03-21-2011 22:35 UTC+2

Break Time

[user76023]

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Players are now on a fifteen minute break as they synchronize the two halves of the tournament players after the staggered dinner break.

03-21-2011 22:35 UTC+2

And a Few More Counts

Matthew Pitt

Player	Chips	Progress
Manuel Bevand	118,500	10,500
Luca Pagano	65,025	9,025
Marco Leonzio	47,000
Kevin Stani	33,900	4,400
Sebastian Ruthenberg	21,450	-20,550
James Sudworth	16,100	500
Kevin MacPhee	14,625	525
Liv Boeree	7,500	-3,900

03-21-2011 22:34 UTC+2

A Few Counts

[user46392]

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Tureniec	83,000	21,000
Fatima Moreira de Melo	67,000	6,000
Nicolo Calia	43,500	-1,500
Michael Eiler	35,000	1,000
Jack Powell	34,000	9,000
Sandra Naujoks	24,000	13,900
Tristan Clemencon	22,000	-11,000
Francisco Torres	10,500	-4,850
Nicolas Chouity	6,500	-1,550

03-21-2011 22:32 UTC+2

Low for Heitmann

[user46392]

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

We're not sure how it came about, but the cards looked like so when we arrived at the table:

Jan Heitmann: {4-Spades} {6-Spades}
Vladimir Geshkenbein: {j-Spades} {j-Hearts}

Board: {a-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {q-Diamonds} {8-Hearts} {2-Diamonds}

"Nice hand," said the ever-gentlemanly Team PokerStars Pro as he collected his things, "Nice playing with you guys." He headed over to tell fellow German Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer the bad news, and then disappeared into the Austrian night.

Geshkenbein is at 85,000.

Tags: Jan Heitmann Vladimir Geshkenbein